Building a bird brain: Sculpting neural circuits for a learned behavior

BioEssays

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1109-1116

  Bottjer, Sarah W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0031453212     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950191210     Document Type: Review

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